Those who are half-hearted.
1855. If there are any Gentiles or hickory “Mormons” here, and so disposed, write it down and send it to Washington, that if they send their officers and soldiers here, to conduct themselves as they did last winter, they shall meet upon the spot the due reward of their crimes.—Brigham Young, June 17: ‘Journal of Discourses,’ ii. 322.
1870. The rest [were] Mormons, or at least “hickory Mormons,” sons of Mormon parents.—J. H. Beadle, ‘Life in Utah,’ p. 224 (Phila., &c.).
1878. Among the young, or “Hickory Mormons,” there are about as many men as women.—J. H. Beadle, ‘Western Wilds,’ p. 534.
